Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
1He came to Derbe and as a consequence to Lystra, everywhere a aficionado named Timothy
lived, whose mother was a Jewess and a aficionada, but whose initiate was a Greek.
2The brothers at Lystra and Iconium make fun of well of him. 3Paul desired to goad him
laterally on the circuit, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in
that neighborhood, for they all knew that his initiate was a Greek. 4As they traveled from
municipal to municipal, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in
Jerusalem for the band to guard. 5So the churches were strengthened in the
look forward to and grew newspaper in records.
Paul is on his jiffy follower circuit, traveling with Silas (c. 49-52 AD) in what is modern day Failure. Derbe and Lystra are in theregion of Galatia south foremost territory of the magnificence. In Lystra they refreshing a untrained man named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewish aficionada whose name was Eunice (2 Tim. 1:5) and whose initiate (name obfuscate) was "a Greek", meaning a Gentile. Timothy was well open and had a good, shut down projection in Lystra and dense Iconium. Timothy joins Paul and Silas as they teach about Jesus in the cities and towns in that neighborhood.
Paul's Vista of the Man of Macedonia
6Paul and his companions traveled
at some stage in the territory of Phrygia and Galatia, having been diffident by the Ceremonial
Preference from preaching the word in the arena of Asia. 7When they came to
the procession of Mysia, they tried to floorboard Bithynia, but the Preference of Jesus
would not allow them to. 8So they voted for by Mysia and went down to Troas.
9During the night Paul had a picture of a man of Macedonia standing and begging
him, "Originate complete to Macedonia and help us." 10After Paul had seen the picture, we
got ready at after to rank for Macedonia, finishing that God had called us to
articulate the gospel to them.Troas is as well open in history as Troy. You might comprise heard of a storybook brawl in Greek mythology that took place donate connecting a gigantic mount. Paul and his companions are absent by the Ceremonial Preference from separation within Asia. In v.9 Paul gets his course and are headed off to Macedonia in northern Greece which is in Europe. Stain in v. 10 the words "we"and "us." Paul has picked up a fourth mate, Luke, who is a Gentile and a medical doctor. He is the initiator of the fourth book of the New Tribute which bears his name and of this book of Acts. He is the on your own Gentile to initiator any part of the Bible.
Lydia's Vary in Philippi
11From Troas we put out to sea and sailed honest for Samothrace, and the
contiguous day on to Neapolis. 12From donate we traveled to Philippi, a Roman community
and the leading metropolitan area of that territory of Macedonia. And we stayed donate a mixture of
days.
Samothrace is an desert island in the Aegean sea, approximaely partly way in the company of Troas in Asia Lesser and Neapolis in Greece. Philippi, eight miles north of Neapolis, was the clear metropolitan area in the neighborhood, named at the rear of Philip the Macedonian who was the initiate of Alexander the Generously proportioned. It was a Roman community because it was the ignoble of a unit of the Roman armed forces that was stationed donate. Becasue of this, its fill with had all of the internship and priveledges that a citizen living in Rome would comprise had.
13On the Sabbath we went private the metropolitan area boasting to the torrent, everywhere we unaffected
to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had
gathered donate. 14One of persons listening was a person named Lydia, a supplier in
purple cloth from the metropolitan area of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord
opened her headland to retort to Paul's session. 15When she and the members of her
pied-?-terre were baptized, she invited us to her home. "If you suspend me a
aficionada in the Lord," she alleged, "come and be placed at my position." And she persuaded
us.
On Saturday Paul and his companions went down to the torrent to teach, because donate weren't enough Jewish men to form a synagogue. Ten men were be next to in order to form the synagogue. Lydia's place of birth was Thyatira, (open today as Akhisar) in Asia Lesser. It was open in that time for it's purple dye. This was the superior color of the plentiful and safe, so Lydia was a travleing saleswoman, seemingly a distinctive, opulent person, as members of her pied-?-terre geographical included workers and slaves. It's all-encompassing to take in that Lydia was the in the early hours form on European put in at to twist to Christianity, past that women for the most part were not to cut a long story short regarded at that time in that work.
Paul drives out a demon
16Once for example we were separation to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the cutting edge. She earned a impressive sign up of money for her owners by fortune-telling. 17This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, scream, "These men are servants of the Maximum Rapturous God, who are mobile you the way to be saved." 18She diffident this up for innumerable days. At the end of the day Paul became so disarray that he turned ring-shaped and alleged to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I
hold back you to come out of her!" At that meticulous the spirit left her.
The word "spirit" indoors refers to a demon. This girl was mad. The words that she make fun of was tenderness a defy, even even if what she was saying was true. It is very practicable, even if we can't know for ultimate, that this girl became a aficionada at the rear of the demon was driven out of her.
